US bases and activity in the SW United States

This guy that does Sidetrack Adventures on YouTube has a number of videos on US military bases and activities in WW 2 in the Southwestern US. Here's a sample:





I'll post up some more.

This is another of the MX 606 GAPA test site Boeing established in 1945 to develop a surface-to-air missile for the USAAF.

 

He shows the WW 2 guard post for this rail line deemed vital to US national security at about 19 minutes in. Imagine being stuck with a few other soldiers in the proverbial Middle of Nowhere guarding it.

 

Triple 8" gun turret from the USS Louisville in the middle of the Nevada Desert.

Mystery in the Desert Is a Mystery No More
(short 3 min video)
(longer video)

 

The Arizona piece of WWII history you never knew existed: It's hidden in plain sight

Hoover Dam - BACK ROADS AND OTHER STORIES

 

Or, the Triangle T (dude) Guest Ranch in Dragoon AZ. You can stay in the same room as Japanese diplomats were placed in confinement after Pearl Harbor until they could be exchanged back to Japan

Pearl Harbor spy was detained at Triangle T Ranch

The secret of Triangle-T - Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 2 (1993-2009)

 

The US Govt. can confine me there for a week and I'd be OK with that. Do I get a ride on the stagecoach and test the thoroughbraces? Mark Twain wrote about them breaking in his book, Roughing It.

 

The US Govt. can confine me there for a week and I'd be OK with that. Do I get a ride on the stagecoach and test the thoroughbraces? Mark Twain wrote about them breaking in his book, Roughing It.